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Component: InfluxDB Servers

Chema1993 edited this page Dec 20, 2017 · 6 revisions

Influx Servers

Defined InfluxDB Servers where collected metrics are stored.

View

Configured Influx Servers are shown as table. This will appear every time you navigate from menu.

influx servers list

Add/Edit InfluxDB output databases

  • Add: In the InfluxDB Servers list click on new button New Button

  • Edit: Click on InfluxDB edit's button Edit Button

The Create/Modify form will show up:

New button

Configuration Parameters

These are the following parameters, that let you create an HTTP based InfluxDB Connection

Variable Settings Config Parameter Description
Server settings ID Text String that uniquely identify the influxdb connection
Host The hostname/IP to connect
Port The port to connect
Timeout Connection timeout
Database settings DB InfluxDB database's Name
User Username with WRITE privileges on selected InfluxDB database
Password Password of related User
Retention Policy Database retention policy name
Timestamp Precision Time units of the Timestamp
Extra settings User Agent HTTP user agent sent to the database backend ( useful to debug input data from de backend view), if not set the agent will send as user agent snmpCollector-<InstanceID> (from the [general] config.toml section)
Description Some useful description to administrators

Dummy Server

Until the user doesn't set up any database, an internal dummy server is created to send data from all gathered devices discarding data at the end of poll.

The "default" Server

SnmpCollector is able to send its own stats to InfluxDB: it will look for an InfluxDB Server named "default" to use as output backend, if it doesn't exist It will send over the Dummy Server.

(Pending define default and dummy influxservers)

Multi edit in Influx Servers

Multi edit has 2 options: Remove and Change property

  1. Remove: Allows to remove all the selected items

  2. Change property: Allows to change the selected property of all the selected items. The properties are the same defined in the configuration.

Property Type Options/Values
Precision Selector h,m,s,ms,u,ns
Retention Input Retention policy name
Timeout Input "X" s